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How to grow your open source project 10x and revenues 5x OSCON2011
1. How to Grow Your
Open Source Project 10x
and Revenues 5x
Henrik Ingo
OSCON 2011
IT Leadership Summit
2011-07-26
2011-07-26 OSCON 2011 1
2. Henrik Ingo
open source technology and strategy
specialist
active in MySQL, Drupal communities
worked in mobile and LAMP with
business management, sales, R&D
current: Senior Performance Architect at
Nokia Ovi
author of "Open Life: The Philosophy of
Open Source"
www.openlife.cc
O'Reilly high tech: To contact me after my presentation, text NV2 to INTRO (46876)
Or use the internet: henrik.ingo@openlife.cc
2011-07-26 OSCON 2011 2
3. What we want to learn today
We now have FOSS projects 20-30 years old.
Let's study the most popular ones:
What governance models are used?
(Focus on ownership more than leadership.)
Which projects have most development velocity
= biggest developer community?
= investment?
Business:
"I don't care about community,
I'm in it to make money."
2011-07-26 OSCON 2011 3
4. "Community"
A group of people contributing to a common
cause or vision. (Jono Bacon)
Free workforce (production, marketing...)
Not objects for lead generation. (Traditional meaning
at MySQL and some other firms. Not used in these slides.)
Stephen Walli & Matthew Aslett
http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr/article/view/1195/1145
5. Take sample of popular, leading
FOSS projects/communities
Debian Ubuntu Sourceforge Henrik
perl gcc JBoss KDE
gnu system tools gnu system tools phpMyAdmin Eclipse
openssh python phpBB Drupal
python w3m Webmin Wordpress
openssl openssh
procmail ogg 2011:
w3m openssl Chromium
mysql xorg OpenStack
gcc perl
cups samba
exim launchpad-integration
ghostscript gpg
ogg gnome
samba openoffice
linux rdesktop
apache firefox
xorg smartdimmer
openoffice mono Note:
Note:
gnome gimp
openjdk vino Upstream projects only.
Upstream projects only.
firefox (iceweasel) compiz (No Debian,
(No Debian,
php sqlite
gimp mysql Ubuntu, XAMPP...)
Ubuntu, XAMPP...)
html2text thunderbird
qt openjdk
mailx
vino
subversion
2011-07-26 OSCON 2011 5
7. Notes
Top projects (bold) publish their own studies or "marketing
numbers". Smaller projects were measured with
OHLOH.net.
Ordering still difficult because studies don't measure the same
things. (Please follow Linux Foundation everyone, thanks.)
Drupal 7 (core) = 954 code contributors / 3 years + 8291
addon modules!
Perl+CPAN and Mozilla+Addons only estimated by
number of modules.
OpenJDK apparently developed within closed doors,
mercurial/OHLOH statistics not realistic.
2011-07-26 OSCON 2011 7
8. Garbage in, Garbage out
How should one read OHLOH?
MySQL had 50-75 devs until 2008, when it was
acquired by Sun and number of devs dropped to
25. By end of 2009 Oracle took over and
development completely stopped.
I personally know more than 25 MySQL devs.
Despite the drama, development certainly
didn't stop.
So we use OHLOH numbers together with
reality check...
Making detailed graphs seems pointless, but
we can group by order of magnitude...
2011-07-26 OSCON 2011 8
9. GROUP BY governance, community size
XtraLarge Linux, KDE, Apache,
1000+ devs Drupal, Eclipse,
100+ commits/day Perl+CPAN,
Mozilla+Addons,
Gnome
Large GCC, Python, Samba MySQL, Qt, OpenOffice, PHP+PEAR
20-200 devs Mono, JBoss, OpenJDK
50-100 commits
Medium GIMP Subversion, GhostScript, phpMyAdmin
Wordpress
Missing data Xorg, GNU system
tools
Foundation Vendor "Just a project"
2011-07-26 OSCON 2011 9
10. Notes:
Categories are observed, not pre-determined, ie they follow as observations from the sample. For instance
"Multiple vendor consortium" is not observed in the sample. (Eg. Eclipse 2001-2003.)
KDE, Apache, Gnome, Eclipse... are entire foundations hosting many sub-projects, but considered here as one
community with some common focus / shared code. With the donation of OpenOffice to Apache this
interpretation may perhaps have reached its limit, other than the Apache license, OpenOffice seems to have
nothing at all in common with any of the other Apache projects.
"Contributor modules" archives - found in Perl, PHP, Drupal etc... - are considered part of the main project.
(Otoh, MySQL and phpMyAdmin are separate.)
GIMP predates Gnome but is now part of it.
GCC is part of GNU, but listed separately as data was available. The author estimates that "the GNU project"
would also be an XtraLarge project if data had been found, as GCC alone tops the Large category already.
Python changed to Foundation in 2000. Subversion was previously led by CollabNet, but is since 2009 an
Apache (Foundation) project and Wordpress is transfering to its own foundation in 2010 from Automattic. Both
are here categorized as vendor projects since this is the model that existed for most of their lifetime.
Qt, MySQL and GhostScript are the stars of 1990 dual-licensing era.
OpenOffice was forked in 2010: LibreOffice. In 2011 Oracle donated the OpenOffice code to Apache Foundation
(IBM). This categorization is looking at historical Sun OpenOffice.
Mozilla Foundation has ~100MUSD revenues and employs many engineers. (Ironic!)
Wordpress only has data for core, plugins and themes is here added as guesstimate to even reach Medium.
"The PHP Group" has never formally incorporated in any jurisdiction. Despite this fact, PHP does have a well
defined process of membership and decision making similar to what more formal organizations tend to have.
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11. Observations 1/2
XtraLarge projects are always foundation governed.
10x larger community
9 projects: statistically strong result
Glass ceiling for Vendor projects?
OpenJDK = Java is probably XtraLarge too (Oracle, Red Hat, IBM,
Apple, SAP...) but commits don't happen in the open.
XtraLarge foundations "acquire" Medium projects and commercial
code: Subversion, GIMP, OpenOffice, Mozilla, Python.
No movement in opposite direction.
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12. Observations 2/2
Large Vendor governed projects tend to be controversial:
MySQL: Financial star, but now forked many times over. A lot of work to just keep it alive
now.
OpenOffice: Typical Sun: Stagnated and mismanaged since 2000.
Successfully forked: all Linuxes immediately backed it, 77 new contributors within 2
months.
Mono: FOSS fundamentalists boycott it anyway because of .NET origin, the rest don't care
that it is vendor managed.
Qt: Technically superior, but lost total dominance to being 50-50 with GTK (part of Gnome)
due to Trolltech over-controlling it. (Financially ok: Nokia acquired in 2008.)
JBoss is uncontroversial to the community, but was attacked by IBM backed Apache
Geronimo (but survived).
OpenJDK is likely to break into the XtraLarge Vendor spot, after Oracle bullied IBM into
contributing to it. (This strategy is unfortunately not available to the average open source
startup :-(
We know Large Vendor projects to have poor community
contributions. (JBoss?)
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13. 2 contenders to watch
Chromium
LWN.net: All time devs = 759
Last 12 months = 600, per month = 300.
Falls between Large & XtraLarge (Not far behind Gnome)
Vendor led (Google)
OpenStack
OpenStack.org: 1171 "contributors" at 82 companies
OHLOH & my friends confirm code committers per month = 100+
Still remarkable: Project is only 12 months old!
Foundation-like community of equals, but OpenStack LLC owned
by Rackspace (technicality? See next slide...)
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14. OpenStack governance
OpenStack vs Eucalyptus
Same field, different model: OpenStack momentum is evidence of direct
missed opportunity by Eucalyptus:
Developers (10 MEUR / year)
Channel partners (Ubuntu)
Foundation-like:
No copyright assignments
Policy Board, Advisory board, bi-annual elections
Trademark & website = neutral ground
Owned by Rackspace
What happens if Racskpace executives decide to veto / disregard
community process?
Personally seen it happen in another project...
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15. 451 Group study
Governance Single vendor Community
Observed development
Closed (Cathedral) 74% 5%
Open (Bazaar) 25% 95%
The 2010 report from 451 Group (aptly) titled "Control and Community":
The software industry has entered the fourth stage of commercial open source
business strategies, characterized by a shift away from projects controlled by a single
vendor and back toward community and collaboration. There is an increased focus on
open source as a development model for the creation of software to be monetized
indirectly, rather than a licensing strategy to spread adoption for direct monetization.
Established open source specialists that rely on controlling open source development
projects need to evaluate how they might transition towards more collaborative
development.
While the single-vendor open source approach is not going to die out, vendors that
control open source projects need to transition to more collaborative development.
(Monty Program, Forgerock cited as examples)
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16. 451: Decline of single vendor model
Simon Phipps: "Open Source bubble"
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17. So what about making money?
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18. 3. ???
4. Profit!
Actual quotes from managers of open source
related firms:
"Community is nice and all, but I'm in it for the
money..."
"I don't believe in ecosystems. You invest in
developing a product, then you sell it to
customers."
"We need to become profitable first. Then we
can do something nice for the community."
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19. Valid point
So which is it?
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20. Or?
I want to keep
the whole cake
even at the risk
of the cake then
remaining smaller
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21. Let's use Linux market shares to estimate an answer...
Red Hat
Most commits, 12% to Linux kernel
Most control by employing 36% of the lead
developers that review commits. (...used to be 50%)
Red Hat has 62% market share of Linux operating
system sales
Leverage factor = 62/12 ~ 5x
Novell = 29 / 7.6 ~ 4x
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22. Rationale of that handwawing:
Factors affecting revenues of Linux vendor:
Total addressable market (OS market = N*10 billions USD)
Linux' market share
One factor limiting Linux market share is how well its functionality
and features serve the needs of the total addressable market. This
is a result of engineering investment. ("Limits to growth" theory.)
Other factors like marketing, sales, "good timing" etc ignored.
Vendor's share of Linux market
(Obviously, this part is less accurate than the first part. I'm
using Physics 101 method of assuming linear causality for
highly non-linear system :-)
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23. Summary
2 types: foundation or vendor.
Exception: PHP
9 of them 10x larger: Foundations rule.
Mozilla revenues higher than for-profit open source
vendors like MySQL, JBoss.
Watch OpenJDK, Chromium and Openstack for 1st
XtraLarge vendor owned.
Linux market: Red Hat & Novell benefit from
community development.
Leverage = 4-5 x (revenues/engineering investment)
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24. Recommendations
Prefer participating in existing foundation projects
Owning a project? Share it!
Expected benefits:
Project can grow 10 x larger
This should increase addressable market (10x?)
Main vendor typically can capture 50% or more of its
market
500% more revenues
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25. Questions?
O'Reilly high tech: To contact me after my presentation, text NV2 toto INTRO (46876)
O'Reilly high tech: To contact me after my presentation, text NV2 INTRO (46876)
Or use the internet: henrik.ingo@openlife.cc
Or use the internet: henrik.ingo@openlife.cc
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26. Sources
Jono Bacon at MySQL conference 2010
http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2010/public/schedule/detail/14796
Linux Kernel Development - who writes it
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/sites/main/files/publications/whowriteslinux.pdf
Red Hat Market share
http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/1321810/Novell-SUSE-Linux-beats-out-Red-Hat-on-cost-at-
life-sciences-firm
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?
q=cache:U4twXD2g3zAJ:searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/1321810/Novell-SUSE-Linux-beats-out-
Red-Hat-on-cost-at-life-sciences-firm+%22red+hat%22+novell+%22market+share
%22+idc&hl=en&client=firefox-a&strip=1
Popular FOSS projects:
popcon.debian.org (top 1000), popcon.ubuntu.com (top 1000), sourceforge.net/top (a few picks), myself added
KDE.
Project size
http://blogs.fsfe.org/padams/?p=140
http://www.neary-consulting.com/docs/GNOME_Census.pdf
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/sites/main/files/publications/whowriteslinux.pdf
http://www.ohloh.net/p/compare
http://lwn.net/Articles/413518/ (OpenOffice)
http://www.eclipse.org/org/community_survey/Eclipse_Survey_2010_Report.pdf
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27. Credits
Thanks to
http://www.flickr.com/photos/neiljs/3527537017/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sashawolff/4526573337/
...for kindly sharing your images under Creative Commons
Attribution license:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
And to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cologne_Cathedral.jpg
...for kindly sharing your image under Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike license:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
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